Text Documents Not Printing

I have a printer problem. When my printer died recently, I installed a very old but little-used spare as a temporary measure. It worked fine! Until that is I moved house and everything was dismantled and re-installed. Since then, it will not print text documents properly. It will print a perfect test page, and it prints web pages happily, but not documents created on the computer in Word or Wordpad.The top and bottom of all the characters is missing. I should add that I am running Word 2000 on Windows XP. The printer is an HP 610c (probably the last living one in the world). At this moment I am not in a position to buy a new printer (I live in the wilds of Greece) but I am also concerned that that is not the answer - that the problem may lie with the Word program itself. (Unlikely, as I have downloaded a free word-processing program and tried creating docs in that, but the computer does not like this either). I would try reinstalling Word but do not have the disk to hand. Am unsure whether to 1) get new printer ASAP 2)borrow copy of Office/word and reinstal or c)ask the local techie to come up the mountain on his donkey....